I recently spent twenty minutes staring at a draft of a LinkedIn message, my thumb hovering over the ‘send’ button, feeling like an absolute fraud. I was trying to reach out to a Senior Director at a logistics firm—let’s call it Maersk, because it was Maersk—and every sentence I wrote felt like I was trying …
The 40-hour workweek is a scam. It was invented a century ago for factory workers who stood at assembly lines, and yet here we are, sitting in ergonomic chairs staring at pixels, pretending that the same math applies to us. It doesn’t. I realized this back in 2018 when I was working at a mid-sized …
Three years ago, I spent an entire Saturday—roughly eleven hours—building the ‘perfect’ dashboard in Notion. I had linked databases for my reading list, a weather widget I never looked at, and a gallery view for my ‘goals’ that featured high-resolution photos of mountains I will never climb. By 10 PM, I felt like a god …
I spent three hours last Tuesday archiving 142 emails just so I could see that little picture of a hot air balloon on my Gmail screen. It felt great for exactly nine seconds. Then I realized I hadn’t actually written the project proposal that was due at 5 PM. I work in logistics—I deal with …
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 2:00 AM on a Tuesday in June 2022, staring at a screen filled with purple and blue emojis. I was building a “perfect” Notion dashboard for a local community garden fundraiser I was helping out with. I spent probably forty hours that week setting up relational databases, rollups, …
“Follow your passion” is the most expensive lie I ever bought into. It’s the kind of advice people give when they’ve already made it, or when they’re trying to sell you a $497 online course on how to become a nomadic life coach. It sounds poetic. It looks great on a Pinterest board with a …
I got a LinkedIn message yesterday from a guy named “Steve” that was so obviously written by ChatGPT it made my teeth ache. It had that specific, oily sheen of fake politeness. You know the one. It used the word “delve.” It told me he hoped this message found me well. It was perfectly punctuated, …
I am staring at a pixelated version of my boss’s left nostril and I can feel my soul leaving my body. We are forty-two minutes into a “sync” that could have been a three-sentence Slack message. I look at the gallery view. Fourteen other people are doing the exact same thing: nodding performatively while clearly …
I remember sitting in a cubicle back in 2017 working for a logistics firm in suburban Ohio. It was 2:15 PM on a Tuesday. I had finished every single one of my tasks for the day—hell, for the week—by lunch. I had two options: ask for more work (which would just be busywork) or sit …
The UK offers an amazing array of destinations, from sandy beach holidays to city breaks and rural escapes; there really is something for everyone. Here we’ve rounded up some of the best UK destinations, perfect for your next staycation and some of the top reasons to visit each place. SnowdoniaIf your idea of a perfect …